Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement

Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement

Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement

November 6, 2017Presenting Denver

ABOUT CHADASH CONTEMPORARY DANCE MOVEMENT

Photo by Valerie Febre Yap Studios.

The vision and mission of Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement is to cultivate renewal, reparation, and restoration in a broken world. Combining dance with film, poetry, multi-media, visual art and spoken word performances, we tell stories in an effort to honestly acknowledge the world as it is, but then to engage in the conversation about what the world can be. Through transcendent, thought-provoking choreography that cuts to the heart and stirs the soul, we seek to “stand in the ashes of the barn burned down and point to the moon. One half in suffering and one half in hope.”

ABOUT KELLY ARCHER

Kelly Archer is the founder and artistic director of Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement, for which she choreographs concert dance productions employing multiple visual and performing arts modalities. Additionally, Kelly’s choreography has been seen at Jacob’s Pillow’s “Inside/Outside” Festival, the McCallum Theatre’s Choreography Festival in Palm Desert, the Rocky Mountain Choreography Festival, the Tanzsommer Festival in Austria, and Synthesis: A Collaboration of the Visual and Performing Arts. As a dance educator, she co-directed the Pre-Professional division at Northern California Dance Conservatory from 2006–2014. Her students now dance with prestigious companies world-wide, from NDT 2 to “Hamilton” on Broadway!

As part of the Presenting Denver Dance Festival Master Class and Preview Performance Series, Kelly will be teaching a beginning contemporary master class for students ages 15 years or older on April 21, 2018 from 1:00-2:30pm. Kelly will also be showing a sneak peek of the work she is creating for the dance festival from 2:45-3:45pm. The informal showing will be followed by a short audience Q/A with the artists as well as a reception. Both events will take place at Colorado Conservatory of Dance. Learn more.

FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES JUNE 23-24, 2018

Main Stage | New & Now

The 2018 Presenting Denver Dance Festival, co-presented by Presenting Denver and The Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts, will be a compilation of world premieres by Colorado artists Chadash Contemporary Dance Movement, Edgar L. Page, Gregory Gonzales, Hannah Kahn Dance Company, Helanius J. Wilkins, Kristen Demaree, Moraporvida Contemporary Dance, and The Schiff Dance Collective. These main stage artists will perform in the New & Now concert in the Byron Theatre on June 23-24, 2018. There will be additional dance activities over the weekend and throughout the year. Tickets for the Presenting Denver Dance Festival New & Now concert are now on sale via the Newman Center Presents website. Purchase tickets at www.newmantix.com/pd.